Although scientists have yet to discover the elusive Planet 9, the recently discovered exoplanet mysterious celestial body in deep space may provide further evidence that it actually exists.
Exoplanet HD 106906B is 6336 light-years from Earth and has a strange orbit around the pair, which travels once every 15,000 years, according to a study published in The Astronomical Journal.
First discovered in 2013, the exoplanet is 11 times the size of Jupiter. Yet, just as it happened, thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope’s measurements, scientists were able to see its extended – 3030 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun – and the orbital orbit, unlike any known planet. Solar system.
This 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet, known as HD 106906B, has a possible orbit around a double star 6 336 light-years away and could indicate something closer to home: a distant member of our solar system, the “planet” This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a giant Jupiter-like planet orbiting far away from its host stars and visible debris disks. (Credit: ESA / Hubble, M. Cornmesser)
Hunt for Mysterious Planet 9
“To illustrate why this is so strange, we can simply look at our own solar system and see that all the planets are in approximately the same plane,” explains Meiji Nguyen, lead author of the study at the University of California, Berkeley. Statement. “If science were to say that, Jupiter was only about 0 degrees like an airplane orbiting every other planet. This type of turn raises all sorts of questions about how the HD 106906B ended up in orbit so far. ”
Researchers believe that the HD 106906B may be quite close to its host Stars, but over time, the orbit rotted due to the stretch. Instead of crashing into normally forming stars, the gravity of two stars pushed it out of the system, but at the right moment, another star passed close by, resulting in a far wider orbit.
If Planet 9 existed, in the early days of our solar system, the same scenario that the gravity of the same Jupiter could propel it toward the edge might be saved by another, alien star.
“It looks like a time machine going back 6.6 billion years for our own solar system to see when our young solar system was dynamically active and everything was going awry and rearranging,” the study said. Co-author Paul Klaus added.
Researchers want to further study the HD 106906B to see how it is formed and to see if there are additional links to Planet 9, a celestial object that, despite the hype around it, has yet to be discovered.
Robert de Rosa, co-author of the study, added: “Despite the lack of discovery of Planet Nine to date, planetary orbit can be estimated based on its effect on various outer objects of the solar system.” “This suggests that if a planet were to actually be responsible for what we observe in the orbits of trans-Neptune objects, it must have a diagonal orbit relative to the solar system’s plane. This prediction of the orbit of Planet Nine is similar to what we are seeing with the HD 106906B. “
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‘Hard to imagine a 9m solar system without a plan’
A fictional planet described as a “missing link in the solar system”, Planet 9 (also known as Planet X) has been part of a dictionary for many years, first mentioned in 2014. While Kate Latech re-emerged in 2016. Astrophysicists Mike Brown and Konstantin Bettigine have written about it.
An artist’s depiction of Planet Nine, an imaginary world that some scientists think is scattered in the distant outer solar system. (R. Hurt (IPAC) / Caltech)
In October 2017, NASA said in a statement that Planet 9 could be 20 times more advanced than the Sun than Neptune, suggesting that “it is now difficult for anyone to imagine our solar system without our planet 9.”
Some researchers have suggested that the mysterious planet may be hidden behind Neptune and that it may take up to 1000 years before it is actually discovered.
Two studies published in March 2019 supported its existence, however, a separate study published in September 2019 suggested that the theoretical object could not be a giant planet hidden behind Neptune – but rather a primitive black hole.
A study published in January 2019 suggests that some of the distant celestial objects in our planetary system are not yet being affected by a detectable planet, but another onda in space echo is another mysterious object.
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